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"...Neil Jordan has directed it furiously, with a lush, insinuating visual style that gets right under the skin..."New York Times "...[Bening] is terrific....There are also solid performances from THE CRYING GAME's Stephen Rea and Aidan Quinn....[Jordan] is a talented filmmaker, and his hauntingly eerie approach seems fresh..."USA Today25.43291

4 stars out of 5 -- "Complex and daring, this is both a tense political thriller and moving romantic drama that is hauntingly unforgettable."Ultimate DVD "...[Jordan is] a madly unreconstructed romantic....Exceptionally well-acted...[and] both efficient and ingenious..."New York Times "...[A] handsome, terrifically acted movie..." USA Today "...A film to savor twice....Jordan's script is a marvel of glancing nuance and telling echo....It is a career achievement for Jordan..."Film Comment "...The year's most surprising and intriguing movie..."Chicago Sun-Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "In retrospect, the film, with its intertwined themes of love and loyalty, violence and the ever-subversive demands of sexual desire, looks central to Jordan's work."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "Jaye Davidson remains striking..."Uncut24.68396

"...[A] handsome, terrifically acted movie..." USA Today "...[Jordan is] a madly unreconstructed romantic....Exceptionally well-acted...[and] both efficient and ingenious..."New York Times "...A film to savor twice....Jordan's script is a marvel of glancing nuance and telling echo....It is a career achievement for Jordan..."Film Comment "...The year's most surprising and intriguing movie..."Chicago Sun-Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "Complex and daring, this is both a tense political thriller and moving romantic drama that is hauntingly unforgettable."Ultimate DVD 4 stars out of 5 -- "In retrospect, the film, with its intertwined themes of love and loyalty, violence and the ever-subversive demands of sexual desire, looks central to Jordan's work."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "Jaye Davidson remains striking..."Uncut24.68396

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The explosive V FOR VENDETTA is powered by ideas that are not computer-generated. It's something rare in Teflon Hollywood: a movie that sticks with you." Rolling Stone "[M]any of Moore's concerns remain intact....It shares the stylistic panache of the MATRIX movies..." Uncut 4 stars out of 4 -- "[A] compelling, rousing and at times strangely moving entertainment." Premiere "As the revolutionary V, Weaving is mostly marvelous..." Sight and Sound "This dark and stylized movie is visually exhilarating, provocative and disturbing. Set in a slightly futuristic world, V FOR VENDETTA is an action thriller that also stimulates thought."USA Today 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he best adaptation of an Alan Moore graphic novel yet to hit the screen..." Total Film 5 stars out of 5 -- "A bravura action romp with all the flair you might expect from a film produced by Matrix creators the Wachowski brothers....Excellent." Ultimate DVD "[T]his grandiose popcorn movie is slathered with ideas, theories, and intricate proclamations about he nature of freedom, government, and individual will..." -- Grade: B+ Entertainment Weekly24.64943

"STUCK raises compelling questions about morality and ethics and how far people will go to avoid reprisal."USA Today "Appropriately dingy in style and verve, Gordon has fun ratcheting up the death chamber stakes with squishy sound effects, nick-of-time tension and violent turns in luck, but the performances are what elevate it."Los Angeles Times "There are no supernatural happenings, just people under extreme stress succumbing to their worst instincts, in Stuart Gordon's grim, expert little thriller STUCK."New York Times "[D]eliciously wicked....[A] darkly comedic thriller that propels the idea of desperate people taking desperate measures to new squirm-inducing heights."Film Comment 3 stars out of 5 -- "It's a shaggy-dog story that spirals into garage Grand Guignol, with Suvari and Rea well-matched in uneasy roles."Empire24.64943

"[M]any of Moore's concerns remain intact....It shares the stylistic panache of the MATRIX movies..."Uncut 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The explosive V FOR VENDETTA is powered by ideas that are not computer-generated. It's something rare in Teflon Hollywood: a movie that sticks with you."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 4 -- "[A] compelling, rousing and at times strangely moving entertainment."Premiere "As the revolutionary V, Weaving is mostly marvelous..."Sight and Sound "This dark and stylized movie is visually exhilarating, provocative and disturbing. Set in a slightly futuristic world, V FOR VENDETTA is an action thriller that also stimulates thought."USA Today 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he best adaptation of an Alan Moore graphic novel yet to hit the screen..."Total Film 5 stars out of 5 -- "A bravura action romp with all the flair you might expect from a film produced by Matrix creators the Wachowski brothers....Excellent."Ultimate DVD "[T]his grandiose popcorn movie is slathered with ideas, theories, and intricate proclamations about he nature of freedom, government, and individual will..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly24.64943

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The explosive V FOR VENDETTA is powered by ideas that are not computer-generated. It's something rare in Teflon Hollywood: a movie that sticks with you."Rolling Stone "[M]any of Moore's concerns remain intact....It shares the stylistic panache of the MATRIX movies..."Uncut 4 stars out of 4 -- "[A] compelling, rousing and at times strangely moving entertainment."Premiere "As the revolutionary V, Weaving is mostly marvelous..."Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he best adaptation of an Alan Moore graphic novel yet to hit the screen..."Total Film 5 stars out of 5 -- "A bravura action romp with all the flair you might expect from a film produced by Matrix creators the Wachowski brothers....Excellent."Ultimate DVD "This dark and stylized movie is visually exhilarating, provocative and disturbing. Set in a slightly futuristic world, V FOR VENDETTA is an action thriller that also stimulates thought."USA Today "[T]his grandiose popcorn movie is slathered with ideas, theories, and intricate proclamations about he nature of freedom, government, and individual will..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly24.64943

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The explosive V FOR VENDETTA is powered by ideas that are not computer-generated. It's something rare in Teflon Hollywood: a movie that sticks with you." Rolling Stone "[M]any of Moore's concerns remain intact....It shares the stylistic panache of the MATRIX movies..." Uncut 4 stars out of 4 -- "[A] compelling, rousing and at times strangely moving entertainment." Premiere "As the revolutionary V, Weaving is mostly marvelous..." Sight and Sound "This dark and stylized movie is visually exhilarating, provocative and disturbing. Set in a slightly futuristic world, V FOR VENDETTA is an action thriller that also stimulates thought."USA Today 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he best adaptation of an Alan Moore graphic novel yet to hit the screen..." Total Film 5 stars out of 5 -- "A bravura action romp with all the flair you might expect from a film produced by Matrix creators the Wachowski brothers....Excellent." Ultimate DVD "[T]his grandiose popcorn movie is slathered with ideas, theories, and intricate proclamations about he nature of freedom, government, and individual will..." -- Grade: B+ Entertainment Weekly24.64943

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The explosive V FOR VENDETTA is powered by ideas that are not computer-generated. It's something rare in Teflon Hollywood: a movie that sticks with you."Rolling Stone "[M]any of Moore's concerns remain intact....It shares the stylistic panache of the MATRIX movies..."Uncut 4 stars out of 4 -- "[A] compelling, rousing and at times strangely moving entertainment."Premiere "As the revolutionary V, Weaving is mostly marvelous..."Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he best adaptation of an Alan Moore graphic novel yet to hit the screen..."Total Film 5 stars out of 5 -- "A bravura action romp with all the flair you might expect from a film produced by Matrix creators the Wachowski brothers....Excellent."Ultimate DVD "This dark and stylized movie is visually exhilarating, provocative and disturbing. Set in a slightly futuristic world, V FOR VENDETTA is an action thriller that also stimulates thought."USA Today "[T]his grandiose popcorn movie is slathered with ideas, theories, and intricate proclamations about he nature of freedom, government, and individual will..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly24.64943

3 stars out of 5 -- "Jordan creates a haunting, lyrical mood....Farrell is touchingly vulnerable and 10-year-old newcomer Alison Barry steals her scenes..."Philip Kemp 4 stars out of 5 -- "There's a sprinkling of fairy dust simply in watching Farrell connect with this character....A film that's a pure delight..."Box Office 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "The filmmaker creates a world so real that you can feel the chill of the water, smell the sweat in the bar. There is so much beauty too, with Jordan clearly ecstatic to be kicking around his hometown..."Los Angeles Times "The magic of ONDINE is all beneath the surface, a shimmery school of fish that you can never be fully sure you glimpsed, but whose existence you don't for an instant doubt. Maybe all you see is a silvery flash, but that's enough."Movieline "Tucked inside ONDINE, the latest from Neil Jordan, is a wisp of a tale about a mythical sea creature and the sailing man who crosses paths with this being."New York Times "[A] beguiling siren song of a movie about the way the unexpected has a way of intruding on even the most fatalistic lives." -- Grade: BA.V. Club24.47676

3 stars out of 5 -- "Jordan creates a haunting, lyrical mood....Farrell is touchingly vulnerable and 10-year-old newcomer Alison Barry steals her scenes..."Philip Kemp 4 stars out of 5 -- "There's a sprinkling of fairy dust simply in watching Farrell connect with this character....A film that's a pure delight..."Box Office 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "The filmmaker creates a world so real that you can feel the chill of the water, smell the sweat in the bar. There is so much beauty too, with Jordan clearly ecstatic to be kicking around his hometown..."Los Angeles Times "The magic of ONDINE is all beneath the surface, a shimmery school of fish that you can never be fully sure you glimpsed, but whose existence you don't for an instant doubt. Maybe all you see is a silvery flash, but that's enough."Movieline "Tucked inside ONDINE, the latest from Neil Jordan, is a wisp of a tale about a mythical sea creature and the sailing man who crosses paths with this being."New York Times "[A] beguiling siren song of a movie about the way the unexpected has a way of intruding on even the most fatalistic lives." -- Grade: BA.V. Club24.47676

"...A faithful adaptation that captures the haunting spirit and religious nature of the 1951 novel..." Variety "...Beautifully evocative..." -- 4 out of 5 stars Total Film "...The movie stands with Jordan's most polished work....The acting harmonizes perfectly with his ripely romantic tone..." Film Comment "...Plenty to admire, especially Moore..." -- 3 out of 5 stars Premiere "...THE END OF THE AFFAIR may be the perfect Valentine's film for everyone -- an anguished period love story with spiritual undercurrents..." Los Angeles Times "...Handsomely mounted, literate, emotionally sophisticated, THE END OF THE AFFAIR has everything a period romance should have, including a Michael Nyman score and passionate performances by stars Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore..." Los Angeles Times21.41716

"...Frequently quite funny....Lansbury is genuinely funny [too]..." New York Times "...[The] elaborate forest settings, all created within studio confines, are lovely and reminiscent of some British pics of the 1940s..." Variety0.2762715

"[T]here is that allure of the Old West that is hard to resist, and there's plenty of grist in the story worth milling and mulling....The film reminds just how arresting an actor Shepard can be."Los Angeles Times0.2417376

"[T]here is that allure of the Old West that is hard to resist, and there's plenty of grist in the story worth milling and mulling....The film reminds just how arresting an actor Shepard can be."Los Angeles Times0.2417376

"...The movie is hypnotic, scary, sexy, perversely funny and haunting in a way that taps into primal fears..." Rolling Stone "...A sophisticated, spookily intense rendering of [Rice's] story....Cruise is flabbergastingly right for this role..." New York Times "...[INTERVIEW] does right by Rice....[It] honors such great movie fantasists as Jean Cocteau and NOSFERATU director F.W. Murnau..." -- Rating: B Entertainment Weekly "...INTERVIEW does a gorgeous job of re-creating not only 19th Century New Orleans and 19th-Century Paris but also the book's genuinely weird, disturbing, almost unimaginable world of those who can never die..."Los Angeles Times "...The movie is true to the detailed vision that has informed all of Anne Rice's novels....INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE is a skillful exercise in macabre imagination..." Chicago Sun-Times0.2072036

"...The movie is hypnotic, scary, sexy, perversely funny and haunting in a way that taps into primal fears..." Rolling Stone "...A sophisticated, spookily intense rendering of [Rice's] story....Cruise is flabbergastingly right for this role..." New York Times "...[INTERVIEW] does right by Rice....[It] honors such great movie fantasists as Jean Cocteau and NOSFERATU director F.W. Murnau..." -- Rating: B Entertainment Weekly "...INTERVIEW does a gorgeous job of re-creating not only 19th Century New Orleans and 19th-Century Paris but also the book's genuinely weird, disturbing, almost unimaginable world of those who can never die..."Los Angeles Times "...The movie is true to the detailed vision that has informed all of Anne Rice's novels....INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE is a skillful exercise in macabre imagination..." Chicago Sun-Times0.2072036

"...A sophisticated, spookily intense rendering of [Rice's] story....Cruise is flabbergastingly right for this role..."New York Times "...[INTERVIEW] does right by Rice....[It] honors such great movie fantasists as Jean Cocteau and NOSFERATU director F.W. Murnau..." -- Rating: BEntertainment Weekly "...INTERVIEW does a gorgeous job of re-creating not only 19th Century New Orleans and 19th-Century Paris but also the book's genuinely weird, disturbing, almost unimaginable world of those who can never die..."Los Angeles Times "...The movie is true to the detailed vision that has informed all of Anne Rice's novels....INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE is a skillful exercise in macabre imagination..."Chicago Sun-Times "...The movie is hypnotic, scary, sexy, perversely funny and haunting in a way that taps into primal fears..."Rolling Stone0.2072036

"...A sophisticated, spookily intense rendering of [Rice's] story....Cruise is flabbergastingly right for this role..."New York Times "...[INTERVIEW] does right by Rice....[It] honors such great movie fantasists as Jean Cocteau and NOSFERATU director F.W. Murnau..." -- Rating: BEntertainment Weekly "...INTERVIEW does a gorgeous job of re-creating not only 19th Century New Orleans and 19th-Century Paris but also the book's genuinely weird, disturbing, almost unimaginable world of those who can never die..."Los Angeles Times "...The movie is true to the detailed vision that has informed all of Anne Rice's novels....INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE is a skillful exercise in macabre imagination..."Chicago Sun-Times "...The movie is hypnotic, scary, sexy, perversely funny and haunting in a way that taps into primal fears..."Rolling Stone0.2072036

"PLUTO is a movie of moments....Images sashay more credibly than words, and Jordan improves on the source material..." Film Comment "Jordan is an accomplished filmmaker, and there are striking images and effective scenes..." Movieline's Hollywood Life 3 stars out of 4 -- "Cillian Murphy lights up the screen....The role is a feast for an actor...and Murphy digs into BREAKFAST with gusto." Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 4 -- "This exuberant, bounding, moving film is explicitly about its gender-bending character....Played with unstoppable wit and feeling by Cillian Murphy..." Premiere "[With] a zany, lurching momentum and vitality....The sweetness works in a delightfully subversive way."New York Times "Declan Quinn's cinematography is suitably lush, with bright blood reds and luminescent greens echoing Patrick's garishly provocative sartorial sensibilities..." Sight and Sound "Flamboyant fun, blessed with a glittering '70s pop soundtrack and tiny-but-telling truths." Uncut 3 stars out of 4 -- "Cillian Murphy is quite fabulous as Kitten....The actor's transformation, physical and emotional, is remarkable." Premiere 3 stars out of 5 -- "Director Neil Jordan and Murphy are endearingly earnest in their belief in the material....Whimsical..." Total Film0.1726697